

The Power Macintosh replaced the Quadra, and was initially sold in the same enclosures. It provides good compatibility, at about two thirds of the speed of contemporary Macintosh Quadra machines. Existing software for the Motorola 68k processors of previous Macintoshes do not run on it natively, so a Mac 68k emulator is in System 7.1.2. The Power Macintosh, later Power Mac, is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer as the core of the Macintosh brand from March 1994 until August 2006.ĭescribed by MacWorld as "the most important technical evolution of the Macintosh since the Mac II debuted in 1987", it is the first computer with the PowerPC CPU architecture, the flagship product of the AIM alliance. The Power Mac G5, the last model of the series.
